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Education and Skills Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Knight of Weymouth. The answering member was Nick Gibb.
Education and Skills Bill. Programme motion (No 2) for proceedings on Report and Third reading. Agreed to on division (268 votes to 166). New Clause 14 debated and agreed to on question. New Clause 1 negatived on division (300 votes to 103). New Clause 18 negatived on division (359 votes to 37). New Clause 6 negatived on division (259 votes to 140). Third reading debate. Agreed to on question. Bill passed.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

475 c1218-335 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Legislative stage

Third reading and Report stage

Procedure

Programme motions
New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Education and Skills Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Bills
House of Commons
Employment Rights Act 1996
Wednesday, 22 May 1996
Public acts
Legislative scrutiny: Education and Skills Bill. Human Rights Joint Select Committee nineteenth report of session 2007-08 with proceedings and appendices.
Monday, 12 May 2008
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1220 (Link to this contribution) There is other business beyond this. I hope that we do not waste 15 minutes on a vote and that we ca...
Barry Sheerman | 475 c1219-20 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased that some important amendments on admissions have been tabled by the Government, e...

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Philip Davies | 475 c1219 (Link to this contribution) I, too, urge hon. Members to oppose the programme motion. Mr. Speaker has been exceedingly generous ...
David Laws | 475 c1219 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to delay proceedings either, but I want to support the comments of the hon. Member for...
Nick Gibb | 475 c1218 (Link to this contribution) Before it was announced that there was to be a statement today, we were relatively happy with the pr...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1218 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the Order of 14th January 2008 (Education and Skills Bill (Programme)) be varied...
Michael Gove | 475 c1246 (Link to this contribution) I am outlining our approach, and the Secretary of State will have to wait until for a Division to be...
Ed Balls | 475 c1246 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman support new clause 14?
David Chaytor | 475 c1246 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Secretary of State has been speaking for nearly 25 minutes about an incident that occurre...
Michael Gove | 475 c1246 (Link to this contribution) I have tried to allow every intervention to be made and to allow this debate to be as full as possib...
Michael Gove | 475 c1245 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State was responsible for making the statement that generated the responses; I did ...
Michael Gove | 475 c1244 (Link to this contribution) I would have verified my facts before calling a press conference at a politically convenient time to...
Ed Balls | 475 c1244 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Balls | 475 c1245 (Link to this contribution) The only person who has used the words ““witch hunt”” about this matter is the hon. Gentleman. He sh...
Michael Gove | 475 c1245 (Link to this contribution) I certainly will not be responding to that intemperate and ill judged contribution from the Secretar...
Speaker | 475 c1245 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind all hon. Members of the words of ““Erskine May””: it is important that temperate lan...
Michael Gove | 475 c1245 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. Tom Peryer, the director of education at the London Dioc...
Ed Balls | 475 c1245 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the hon. Gentleman to comment on the statement from the Church of England? On 11 March, th...
Ed Balls | 475 c1244 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, since I became Secretary of State I have said many times that I fully s...
Ed Balls | 475 c1244 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has said something with which I can agree wholeheartedly, so may I recommend to h...
Michael Gove | 475 c1241 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to receive your rulings, Madam Deputy Speaker. In the debate on grammar sch...
David Laws | 475 c1244 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's concerns about the timing of the Government announcement, but is h...
Michael Gove | 475 c1244 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that when it comes to asking for any contribution sensitivity must be applied, but that...
Rob Marris | 475 c1243 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has used the noun three times, but what does ““ethos”” mean in the present contex...
Michael Gove | 475 c1243-4 (Link to this contribution) A good question. ““Ethos”” refers, inevitably, to the qualities that a school has that make it disti...
Ed Balls | 475 c1235 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to speak on Report of this historic Bill to raise the education and training le...
Speaker | 475 c1235 (Link to this contribution) Order. I wonder whether the Minister would confine or relate his remarks to new clause 14.
Speaker | 475 c1233-5 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: (a), in line 10, after 'schools...
Ed Balls | 475 c1233 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
David Laws | 475 c1241 (Link to this contribution) Surely the hon. Gentleman knows that under the existing legislative process he would have to table a...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. While we are on the subject of grammar schools, ...
Michael Gove | 475 c1241 (Link to this contribution) My position is that where, for reasons of demographic change, there is any need to expand the provis...
Michael Gove | 475 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to give way to the Minister.
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1240 (Link to this contribution) I certainly support the Government's position that it should be a matter for local choice but, as I ...
Michael Gove | 475 c1241 (Link to this contribution) No, but I look forward to the discussions that the hon. Gentleman is going to have with his Front-Be...
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1240 (Link to this contribution) I cannot help but point out to the hon. Gentleman that he seems to be describing in great detail wha...
Michael Gove | 475 c1240 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the question of selection, and note that the hon. Member for Bury, North (Mr. Cha...
Michael Gove | 475 c1240 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. My contention is that those who criticise the Government ...
Michael Gove | 475 c1239 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that if the Secretary of State wishes to refresh his memory on our views, he can do so by ...
Michael Gove | 475 c1239-40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West for displaying a spirit of loyalty th...
Speaker | 475 c1240 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that we are discussing the contents of new clause 14 and the amen...
Rob Marris | 475 c1238 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Secretary of State back to line 553 of new clause 14, which is on page 2057 of the am...
Ed Balls | 475 c1238 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I think that it is a technical term. It would refer to the governing body of those sch...
Michael Gove | 475 c1238-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that I am not alone in the House in being moved by the Secretary of State's plea for conse...
Speaker | 475 c1239 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that we are not on Third Reading. We are addressing the contents ...
Ed Balls | 475 c1235-8 (Link to this contribution) Fair admissions are also vital in ensuring universal access to educational opportunity, and excellen...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1327 (Link to this contribution) In a second. By raising participation in education, employment or training to the age of 18, everyo...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1326 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. This landmark Bill has rightly benefited f...
Ed Balls | 475 c1310 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we consult the local authorities and specify that point clearly in guidance. It...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1326-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has raised the case of Kirsty Oldfield in the House on several occasions, and we ...
Philip Davies | 475 c1326 (Link to this contribution) Although new clause 16 was not reached, will the Minister confirm that, were the Bill to be given a ...
Ed Balls | 475 c1309 (Link to this contribution) I will not take any interventions. We will do so in consultation with Barnardo's and Rainer. This i...
Ed Balls | 475 c1310 (Link to this contribution) I have two minutes. If I give way, I will not be able to answer the question. Paul Head, principal ...
John Hayes | 475 c1310 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State therefore allow consistency on the matter of a reasonable excuse, in the...
John Hayes | 475 c1309 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Ed Balls | 475 c1308-9 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak to Government amendments Nos. 100 and 105, and try to respond to as many points as pos...
David Laws | 475 c1306-7 (Link to this contribution) We all look forward to hearing the Secretary of State deal with the 110 amendments and new clauses i...
John Hayes | 475 c1302-5 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps there is another lunch in the offing. Amendment No. 70 and new clause 13 deal with duties o...
John Hayes | 475 c1302 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted to comment on that over a lovely lunch, perhaps at Wiltons, which I know my hon...
Philip Davies | 475 c1301 (Link to this contribution) Following that theme, I know that my hon. Friend is cantering through a large number of amendments, ...
Speaker | 475 c1302 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions should be brief. The hon. Member may lucky enough to catch my eye later in the ...
John Hayes | 475 c1301 (Link to this contribution) I knew that you were going to say that, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I am not going to be encouraged by...
Charles Walker | 475 c1334-5 (Link to this contribution) When I was elected to Parliament, I was told not to bring emotion to this place, but I have a list w...
Tobias Ellwood | 475 c1335 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) for making a powerful speech....
David Chaytor | 475 c1331-3 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Government for getting the Bill on to the statute book. It is a landmark Bill, in exac...
Nick Gibb | 475 c1329-31 (Link to this contribution) The Conservative party believes strongly in the goal of higher rates of participation in education a...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1328-9 (Link to this contribution) I am particularly grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way because I just wanted to endorse his...
Nick Gibb | 475 c1328 (Link to this contribution) It has been a fascinating five months as this Bill has hurtled its way through the House. I would li...
David Laws | 475 c1333-4 (Link to this contribution) I should like to echo the thanks given by the Front-Bench spokesmen for the Government and the Conse...
Tobias Ellwood | 475 c1327 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. The concern that I raised during the important debate on Second Readi...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1327-8 (Link to this contribution) I will not take any more interventions because I need to leave time for others to take part in this ...
Speaker | 475 c1327 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions are meant to be brief.
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1327 (Link to this contribution) I would encourage the hon. Gentleman to explain to the teachers in his constituency what the Bill ac...
Nia Griffith | 475 c1286 (Link to this contribution) In proposing the amendment, I very much applaud the excellent work of Jane Hutt, the Assembly Minist...
Huw Irranca-Davies | 475 c1286-8 (Link to this contribution) I rise to address amendment No. 149 and the Government amendments. My hon. Friend the Member for Lla...
John Hayes | 475 c1288-9 (Link to this contribution) It is indicative of my support for the Union that, although I represent an east of England constitue...
Kevin Brennan | 475 c1278 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman, in the course of his remarks, respond to the statement issued by the specia...
Nick Gibb | 475 c1278-9 (Link to this contribution) I understand that concern, but there will be a safeguard under our new clause. The safeguard will be...
Kevin Brennan | 475 c1279 (Link to this contribution) I shall be very brief, given the time available. I ask my hon. Friends to resist the new clauses. Th...
Nia Griffith | 475 c1285 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 149, in page 1, line 7, after 'England', insert 'and Wales'.
Huw Irranca-Davies | 475 c1289 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can help the hon. Gentleman by clarifying that, within the Wales Office and the Welsh Asse...
John Hayes | 475 c1289-90 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that intervention. I presume that the reasoning behind the unwilli...
Michael Gove | 475 c1277 (Link to this contribution) If the Secretary of State was working so closely with faith organisations, why did the diocesan offi...
Ed Balls | 475 c1277 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely reject the idea that I have slandered any school. We published in a factual way details...
Charles Walker | 475 c1275 (Link to this contribution) Why was the figure of 10 per cent. alighted on? Why is it not 5, 15 or 20 per cent.?
Ed Balls | 475 c1275-7 (Link to this contribution) The 10 per cent. figure has been there since the beginning of the specialist schools movement, which...
Charles Walker | 475 c1275 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Ed Balls | 475 c1275 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one more time, and then I will conclude.
Ed Balls | 475 c1275 (Link to this contribution) Not having read the Policy Exchange report that advocated the abolition of selecting 10 per cent. of...
Nick Gibb | 475 c1278 (Link to this contribution) New clauses 1 and 2 deal with behaviour. Poor behaviour, disruptive behaviour and even violent behav...
Nick Gibb | 475 c1278 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 475 c1278 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss new clause 2—Home-school contracts ‘(1) An admission aut...
John Hayes | 475 c1300 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is encouraging me to be rather more critical of him than I would instinctively choose t...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1301 (Link to this contribution) I shall be happy to answer the hon. Gentleman's question as soon as he has given me a clear answer a...
John Hayes | 475 c1301 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way to the Secretary of State, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I think that he ...
John Hayes | 475 c1301 (Link to this contribution) Let me move on, but I will give way later. I do not want to be ungenerous—
Speaker | 475 c1301 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman might like to concentrate on the amendments to which he is speakin...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 475 c1300 (Link to this contribution) There are certainly some excellent people doing excellent work at the sharp end. The hon. Gentleman ...
John Hayes | 475 c1300 (Link to this contribution) I will happily give way when I have finished this sentence. Early intervention has long been an asp...
John Hayes | 475 c1290 (Link to this contribution) I am again grateful to the Minister. Mindful that we have many other matters to debate in the short ...
Hywel Williams | 475 c1290-1 (Link to this contribution) Further to the point that the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) made, I, to...
John Hayes | 475 c1290 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is gagging to intervene once again. I am delighted to give way accordingly.
Huw Irranca-Davies | 475 c1290 (Link to this contribution) Again, it is convenient to clarify the position. We indeed see Welsh aspects being subject to pre-le...
Speaker | 475 c1292-8 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 9—Learning and support contrac...
John Hayes | 475 c1299-300 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to this enormous group of amendments, mindful that the time in which to do so is ver...
Nia Griffith | 475 c1291 (Link to this contribution) I listened carefully to the Minister and was particularly impressed by his assurance that it is poss...
John Hayes | 475 c1292 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1261 (Link to this contribution) I just want to refer the hon. Gentleman to the research to which I earlier referred a Conservative F...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1260-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely. When Lord Rooker made that statement in the other place in introducing legislati...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1261 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. That point can also be seen on an international scale. The PISA—pro...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1262 (Link to this contribution) That is a valid point, and one could make it again with reference to other areas. The Select Committ...
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1257-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: that is exactly the position. Constituents of mine may be sitting at home n...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1258-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the thrust of what the Government are trying to achieve in new clause 14. I have been a me...
Ed Balls | 475 c1259 (Link to this contribution) The reports from local authorities to the schools adjudicator will apply to all maintained schools, ...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1259-60 (Link to this contribution) None the less, many people see a need to tighten up the system to make clear its absolute applicatio...
Kelvin Hopkins | 475 c1260 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with what the hon. Gentleman has been saying. I am old enough to have been part of ...
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1255-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall not detain the House for long because it has heard my views on the subject on numerous occas...
David Laws | 475 c1255 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend is strongly supporting my point about getting rid of covert—or overt—mec...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1255 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend says, we disagree on this. Academies that take over from failing schools will inhe...
David Laws | 475 c1255 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point, although not one, as he knows from our earlier conversati...
Rob Marris | 475 c1257 (Link to this contribution) I entirely understand my hon. Friend's concerns, but does he share mine? My understanding of the rul...
David Laws | 475 c1254 (Link to this contribution) In fairness, I said that it is right—I very much agree with the hon. Member for Surrey Heath—that in...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1255 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can throw some light on the previous intervention. I will not comment on the academy menti...
Nick Gibb | 475 c1254 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman's thesis about social segregation is right, how does he account for Mossbourne...
Michael Gove | 475 c1254 (Link to this contribution) Purely for the benefit of the House, I would like say that I used to be chairman of Policy Exchange,...
David Laws | 475 c1253-4 (Link to this contribution) I am pointing out that the Government and most of their Back Benchers who committed to halt an expan...
David Laws | 475 c1254 (Link to this contribution) There are also one or two Conservative policies that are not endorsed in this paper, but I may be st...
Barry Sheerman | 475 c1252 (Link to this contribution) Let me assure the hon. Gentleman, in case he thinks that I have just rolled over and let the Governm...
David Laws | 475 c1252 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate how disciplined our Select Committee Chairman is, but we are dealing with a group of am...
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1253 (Link to this contribution) I must point out the logical flaw in the hon. Gentleman's argument. Grammar schools' selection by ab...
David Laws | 475 c1253 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Select Committee Chairman for assuring us that he is not going to roll over on ...
Rob Marris | 475 c1251-2 (Link to this contribution) I confess that I am not an education expert, and I have never understood the difference between sele...
David Laws | 475 c1252 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point, and I will tell him in a minute what the Government's r...
Barry Sheerman | 475 c1252 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the hon. Gentleman that I was speaking to new clause 14? Others have drifted into areas...
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1251 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has just made some very good points about social deprivation, but I want to bring...
David Laws | 475 c1250-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall not speculate on the timing of the announcement of Government new clause 14 or the motives t...
Barry Sheerman | 475 c1248-50 (Link to this contribution) It was as long ago as July 2004 that the previous Select Committee on Education and Skills published...
Michael Gove | 475 c1246-8 (Link to this contribution) Delighted, Madam Deputy Speaker. One of the central aspects of the admissions code covered by the n...
Speaker | 475 c1246 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is a considerable amount for discussion in the new clauses and amendments before the Ho...
Ed Balls | 475 c1274-5 (Link to this contribution) If a sports college has the power to choose only 10 per cent. of its pupils on the basis of whether ...
David Chaytor | 475 c1274 (Link to this contribution) Before we leave that point, will the Secretary of State define the distinction between aptitude and ...
Ed Balls | 475 c1274 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, the hon. Gentleman has commended us on our evidence-based research. We will ensur...
David Laws | 475 c1274 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for those comments, and I can understand why the issue of se...
Ed Balls | 475 c1275 (Link to this contribution) It is generally agreed that we need to do more to expand the teaching of, and the number of pupils t...
David Laws | 475 c1275 (Link to this contribution) What is the difference between modern languages, for which the Secretary of State does allow selecti...
Ed Balls | 475 c1275 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention, and then I will conclude.
Michael Gove | 475 c1275 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State explain for the benefit of the House what the difference is between an i...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1271 (Link to this contribution) I said earlier that it was too early to make a judgment about academies, as they are still fairly ne...
Ed Balls | 475 c1271 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Member for Chesterfield.
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1272 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree that many of the schools that I refer to as secondary moderns in Kent are absolutel...
Ed Balls | 475 c1271-2 (Link to this contribution) I and my Department are determined to keep the evidence on academies under review, to make sure that...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1273 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Secretary of State will answer the question that I posed earlier. If Ministers ...
Ed Balls | 475 c1272-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to point to the great educational opportunity that arises from the huge Buil...
Ed Balls | 475 c1273 (Link to this contribution) The Government's position is clear: we do not support selection in schools, but where such selection...
Ed Balls | 475 c1273 (Link to this contribution) I have taken a number of interventions; I had better make a bit more progress. We cannot support the...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1270 (Link to this contribution) The evidence that the Select Committee has looked at—for example that from PricewaterhouseCoopers, w...
Ed Balls | 475 c1269-70 (Link to this contribution) We have had a wide-ranging debate on a number of issues to do with admissions. A great deal of passi...
David Chaytor | 475 c1268-9 (Link to this contribution) I will leave the exact number of signatures required and the exact rules of the ballot to the imagin...
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1268 (Link to this contribution) That would presumably mean that they would have to collect 44,000 signatures in the arcane way that ...
David Chaytor | 475 c1268 (Link to this contribution) It is true that this system could have different effects in different parts of the country. However,...
Stephen Ladyman | 475 c1268 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful case, and he has been a doughty campaigner on the issue for many...
David Chaytor | 475 c1266-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution, but I would rather continue with my argument for th...
Ed Balls | 475 c1270-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is pointing to the fact that with academies, we are trying to achieve truly compr...
Charles Walker | 475 c1265 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman define, in his own words, what he regards as a good school? What qualifies a...
David Chaytor | 475 c1264-5 (Link to this contribution) That is right, and that point was finally recognised last year in the then shadow Secretary of State...
Paul Robert Holmes | 475 c1265-6 (Link to this contribution) I risk prolonging the debate on what is a good school—the hon. Gentleman's definition is admirable—b...
David Chaytor | 475 c1265 (Link to this contribution) I would be inclined to repeat some of the criteria that the hon. Member for Surrey Heath referred to...
Kelvin Hopkins | 475 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend will be aware of OECD statistics that suggest that the gap between the hi...
David Chaytor | 475 c1262-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Chesterfield (Paul Holmes) and my hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet (Dr. L...
John Hayes | 475 c1266 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to interrupt the hon. Gentleman's lecture on modernity, but given what he has said so far...
David Chaytor | 475 c1266 (Link to this contribution) The Government, in 2006, explicitly accepted that they were turning their attention to structures. T...
Nigel Evans | 475 c1266 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely lucky. In Ribble Valley, I have one grammar school, which is excellent, and several n...
Kelvin Hopkins | 475 c1261 (Link to this contribution) I was one of those—the chosen few—who was selected in 1952. One of the things we noticed at the time...
Ed Balls | 475 c1274 (Link to this contribution) I will finish my point first, and then I will take the intervention. I have seen the research that ...
Speaker | 475 c1285 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments Nos. 113 to 118.
David Laws | 475 c1251 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman pre-empts my comments on new clauses 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, and I shall come to t...
Philip Davies | 475 c1307-8 (Link to this contribution) I intend to use just a minute of the remaining time to highlight new clause 23, which would allow a ...
John Hayes | 475 c1301 (Link to this contribution) I want to press on with our proper scrutiny of this very broad group of amendments, but I will just ...
Michael Gove | 475 c1242-3 (Link to this contribution) I am always grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his commitment to evidence-based policy making. I wil...
Speaker | 475 c1241 (Link to this contribution) Order. I really must stop this discussion on grammar schools. I remind all hon. Members that we are ...
David Chaytor | 475 c1266 (Link to this contribution) I think that is right. Paradoxically, it is in the interests of the Opposition to drop this archaic ...

Subjects

Children
Disclosure of information
Data protection
Devolved matters
Admissions
Discipline
Disadvantaged
Apprentices
Attendance
Advocacy
Health
Finance
Education
Employers' associations
Homelessness
Learning disability
Pupil exclusions
National Assembly for Wales
Orphans
Schools
Special educational needs
Training
Vocational guidance
Young offenders
Wales
Vocational education
School leaving
Sixth form education
Academies
Parenting contracts
In-service training
Specialised diplomas
Specific learning difficulties

Legislation

Education and Skills Bill 2007-08

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